GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| remnant | a usually small part, member, or trace remaining |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| scenario | an outline or synopsis of a play |
| encumber | weigh down |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| license | permission to act |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |